Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-13
M INCREASING in FAVOR.
Octy Cohen Tells How People Are Pay
ing More Attention to Sports.

Octy Cohen Tells How People Are Pay
ing More Attention to Sports.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-No one who has not
looked thoroughly into the subject can form
any adequate conception Of the important
part which sporting matters have come to
play in the makeup of the average daily
newspaper. 1t is not by any means an UNI
usual thing to see IN entire page of SOM of
the best of the metropolitan Sunday papers
given over exclusively to the discussion OF
sporting events, past and to come. Rowing,
billiards, wrestling, foot and horse racing.
jumping, pugilism, bicycling and yachting.
all have their devoted admirers, who eagerly
scan the columns of their favoritei daily for
the information of the doings of the athletes
in the particular branch of sport for which
they may have a preference. Without q
doubt the turf has more followers than the
cinder path, the wrestling mattress, the prize
ring or the wheel. Next to horse racing in
general popularity comes boxing, and after
that, bicycling. But pedestrianism, while
not having, in any one of its subdivisions, as
many admirers as some other sports, never
theless is very popular, and it is a question
whetherGf ~sprinting. walking, and go-as-you-
please are. all included) it is not more popu-
soA ohoA ohJ othS KIN IL SIOi SOAtSPl
horse racing.
The eiiaszoff r,ser,, loo, vino visit athletic ex.
hibitions is getting better with each succeed.
ing year, and at 1.-THE entertainments given by
our leading athletic clubs the soinberc olors
of the mems clothing are usually relieved by
the bright bonnets and gowns of the fair sex,
who not infrequently attend in considerable
numbers.
Even at the so called "brutal exhibitions
which were at one time held in Madison
Square garden, and Wholesome OF them at
least-were in reality nothing more than
scientific exhibitions of the manly art of self.
defense, some of the best people of this city
might always be seen. Hon. Roscoe Conkling
and several prominent metropolitan jour.
~Ialists, whose very naine are household
words, have been present at many of the zen.
t~ertainmentsa given at the garden under
the auspices of Professor John l.. Sullivan.
Almost every youngstcr in the land knows
how to play baseball, and, what is better,
does play it. Baseball, like any other athletic
exercise, is an aid to digestion, with attend.
!, ant good health. In almost every school in
the land, which is conducted on modern prin.
ciples, the tiniest toddlers are taught calls.
themes and take as kindly to it as a duck does
to the water. And this is as itshould be. The
boys, ana TIE girls, 100, Iof that matter, should
be encouraged to exercise frequently outdoors
whenever possible. Let the boys run, wrestie,
box, jump and play baseball. The girls can
amuse themselves with lawn tennis, tricycle.
riding, on even by playing tho time honored
/ tag OF all exercises, however, for the de.
%velopment of the human frame, there is not
one, in my opinion, which is productive OF
such uniform benefit to all portions of the
body as swimming. Every child over {
years of age should BIZ taught to swim and
allowed to go into the water once a day dur.
ing the summer months.
OcTY COHEN.